This weekend roundup of Bloomberg Tax Insights includes estate planning for cryptoassets; tax breaks that could go away if President Trump isn’t re-elected; how governments can save money on energy-efficient buildings; new EU VAT rules for e-commerce; MoneyGram’s thus far unsuccessful quest for a deduction available only to banks; reforming the Brazilian tax system; and how 2020 will be the year of the tax professional.

Student loan giant SLM Corp., known as Sallie Mae, warned investors last year that new accounting rules for bad loans would distort its balance sheet so much it would have to resort to unofficial metrics to convey its financial health.

The U.K. government could drastically widen the scope of some planned audit-market reforms to bar accounting firms from doing consulting work for any of their large audit clients, including companies not listed on the stock exchange.

The health of the consumer, commercial lending trends and new accounting rules known as CECL will be in focus when American Express Co. reports earnings on Friday morning.

U.S. accounting firms’ monitoring of their own work will receive a lot more scrutiny in 2020, as their regulator continues to look for ways to boost audit quality.

Morris Pearl is somewhat encouraged by all the talk about wealth taxes these days. The Patriotic Millionaires, which he chairs as a volunteer job, has “made a lot of progress in moving the needle” toward its argument for taxing the rich more and paying people more equitably.